New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-19
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INSTRUCTIONS I'm BROADWAY.
THE STREET ALMOST NO rHoRoUGHFARE.

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BALEs AND BUILDING MATERIAL
Thu Denart,osnt of Public Works seems to be hiiine
Broadway with distractions. This great thorougnfare
AVIAN I'm what may called Its normal condhoh' is %
With street ears carts, drays and wagons Win
4. goodly eucupbrance OF dry-goods bales aud boxes
thanking IT, passage By vehicle or loot along INC
lower part OF IT, least. has become extremely dmcu'
and forces the occupant OF or carriage TO Imagine
that he has Joined a funeral procession; yet even
funeral procession will better time than car in
Broadway below Canal-st under present conditions.
And tearing up Broadway at one polpt or an
other has added and makes the street
the most undesirable one in the city TO travel In
A TRIBUNE reporter walked yesterday FROM Bowling
Green to Park along Broadway for the purpose
OF seeing carefully tho convenience OF tho pupho
provided for by the powers that In thoroughare COL
ebrated the world presumably IN part Tor us
sractiveness. The Board OF Elccucal Contro mas ap
parepty been turned loose in the street IL Is JUST CLOS
ing up extending from Corandt
st. to point above Futon-st These EXCAVATIONS arc
some eight feet in width and depth, and whom
made in tho narrower parts OF BROADWAY
render one eide of the street useless Tor
travel from curb TO railroad track The dirt from the
excavations IL piled up close to the tracks, parity as
wall TO prevent from tnmbiiss into tho trench
partly there is other place to put IT, and the
paving put into rectangular heaps on tho 500
walk For many days confusion VERSE coafounded mas
rood sized uncovered sections OF the work still lett
Policemen arc Kept on the alert to disentanss the
blockadss resulting from these openings ana 70 sniao
pedestrians the street In an almost fHexr1csoe
maze Of cars and Wagons On rainy day tho seene
presented Is Of medley Of mud aud OF masses OF
struggling humanity and delayed vehicles
Tho most noteworthy impedinent In Broadway. below
this closing subway excavation is the protuoerance OF
array OF advertising signs at Exchange place inc
method in which these signs have como 10
occupy space In front buildings Ia process OF erection
good illustration Of the public and private rights
are being encroached upon in this CITY, These board
signs are run toward the curb possible leav
ing walk for pedestrians 1t may be charged
that the In ru only result Of the width o. the
private vaults beneath the sidewalk and that 10 ineoso
these is 10 put up high board ience around
limits Yet IN OF Ter 10 give the signs chance tho
narrow space left be taken largely by the sign
painters. 80 that the PEDESTRIAN al such times
can only have his choice OF waking In
the middle Of the street. or OF run
ming into a pant-brush or upsetting paint
pot As indication OF now this intrusion OF signs may
be avoided attention mas be called 70 ah array OF SIGNS
more than quirer oil the width OF the Sidewalk III
stead OF tnree-q tarters. as IN Otuer places
rurn.ng AGAIN up Broadway one runs across big
maniole a. Fulton-s. OF the sisns OF snDwsg WORK
whioI will DC covered In tne WITH iron In front OF IT.
rsurs there ss re- ains sorIs of dirt and sand while
pavIuk-stUnes have resting place on Tue siue"siA
Opvosi Inc lily Hall square there still finger two piles
OF p.v nc stones seems 10 be the custom 70 remove
sucu u.nurances IN broadway only iuer they nave
been left iong enough create lasting Impression In
the dry. goo people could readily dnd ground
for growing ,ts here Uing more Aud nore me Gus ON
for goods houses use tue sidewalk a. uis
trlbutng ceuires Tor boxes and bales OF goods be
tween chambers and Prince SIS. thee are Instances
WHERE for slo Ks in succession II almost imossi
bic To In safety. Boxes on trucks or tu nbiing
lro IA upon auoiher 80 occupy sp"e thSt htle
room is lett for pedestrian At FrankTa.st there
pile of pavng-t0nos clustered around The isot OF
Telegraph poI. sorvist as re.nndsr OF contractors
Jus above Union square subway work once mora Is
encountered Broal1 ~ Is nlrtwest FRO Sevcntrcnth
rwenriethst Its east SHE nov giV"a over 10 the
huge subw Az trenches, ~hcn be seen IN all their
all tner stages OF growth are tnrre dltpiayeL
Thrre pots where the pavement only has been re-
moved; others where tho trench hls bee dag others
where brick has laid, All then DINERS wh-rs
tue earth IS restored Passengers on horse-cars
through this district yesterday enc0un eTei couls
OF lust for gat wind sired Tho loose dirt through the
or course travel Is wholly snut on on ne
east side of the street Remnants OF subway
work exist at rhriiet1-st where "a DIE b"'o
remains plankeI over with gpod-sile mound ~ earth
Keep Ii pam. waie huge piecS OF iraneworkl is
ancient Landmark. Usder the elevated roa Al SIKH
there is another patch OF Unfinished SUBWAY work
Men closing II up YESTERDAY. As broadwV
branches of into broad erpansc above Si1th-aVr u u
presumed tha for that reason permits Tor srectoPehhS
do not nsursa there Nearly all the COS ao"vo
Thrty ourtn-st those from buildings now oeinS pnI
up Mortar beds barrels some fern of bull ling mate
rial arc In tho p0lats aoovs Thirty-nntn.
d. T. w." "A Wis BILE sign yesterday that The city
acting its own permit To roh-w ndsxing NJ tho
FirIy.htb-st cro$sihs 4 body OF worsnen 10 now
flashing up stretch OF rspavng on the west SHE OF
Broadw AZ from f1ftyfourIh 70 tlfty-seventh Yet
thIs part OF tie city Broadway stretches so Tar from
cnrD curl such his makes no Infringe
public aud private convenience. The small tri-
angie at fertr-srventh-sL scans 10 he the camping
ground OF furniture tron neghborlng places.